12/30/2023 0 Comments Lds primary songbook with pictures![]() ![]() The church recently announced that they are going to be compiling new music for the Hymnbook and Children’s Songbook, and they’ve asked for input in an unprecedented way. female names, stories, and quotes doesn’t seem quite as trivial. As an LDS feminist, I agree with her that this would, indeed, be silly.īut what if it’s not just that one manual? What if every manual has 8% more men’s stories than women’s stories? Or 8% more men quoted than women? Or 8% more named men than named women? What if the disparity never goes the other way, and it’s always women who are less represented than men?Īnd what if it’s not 8% at all, but more like 80% across the board? Suddenly, fighting for an approximately equal representation of male vs. My friend imagined LDS feminists getting up in arms about 134 men versus 115 women mentioned in stories in one manual and demanding exactly equal representation. girl mentioned in a story or shown in a picture seems extremely trivial. My friend has a point: if all things are more or less equal, going through and counting every boy vs. “I mean, how nit-picky can you get? It just seems so petty to go through and count like that.” ![]() ![]() “They want equal mentions of men and women in stories and equal numbers of men and women in pictures in manuals and promotional materials,” she said incredulously. I remember discussing some items she’d read on an “LDS feminist agenda” several years ago, and she got a bit scoffy at a couple things on the wishlist. A friend of mine has feminist leanings, but when it comes to gender issues in the church, she can have a bit of a blind spot. ![]()
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